Fallen leftist and famously acerbic Brit journo Chris Hitchens has been 'rah rah hawk US foreign policy' for a while now. Like I've said before I respect he's a good writer and that he's clearly intelligent. I just don't agree with a lot of his views.
One of those views was on the most recent addition to the pantheon of evil weasel words, that of "enhanced interrogation". aka Torture. Hitchens believed EI was not torture and that Enhanced Interrogation was different. Read more »
Christopher Hitchens actually had himself waterboarded by the US Military to see whether it felt like torture to him. It did.
via Pharyngula, who has links to video.
It’s interesting that moral relativism is acceptable for conservative loons - but only when it allows them to defend human rights abuses by the pillar of freedom. The concept of a higher standard does not apply. The notion that there are moral absolutes do not apply. Torture by the United States of America is acceptable because it’s not as bad as the torture done by Saddam Hussein and it’s not as bad as beheading people or flying planes into buildings. And besides, the United States saves the worst torture for the really nasty people. Read more »
This is how Israel treats Palestinian journalists who struggle to report on the indignity of the Zionist occupation of their land.
My friend Mike Otterman, author of American Torture, writes for the Guardian Comment is Free in response to Christopher Hitchens’ piece in Vanity Fair claiming water-boarding is torture…yet suggesting America is somehow not as bad as those repressive regimes…who also use torture: Read more »
Christopher Hitchens actually had himself waterboarded by the US Military to see whether it felt like torture to him. It did.
via Pharyngula, who has links to video.
Here’s my “Stump the Yoo” question. Would the President endorse US military interrogators adopting Chinese Communist interrogation methods used to extract confessions, mainly false, from American prisoners during the Korean War?
Apparently, yes. Read more »
… playing silly little games - yet they think they are so very clever. The weasels who have thumbed their noses at the US Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and fundamental moral decency are not the slightest bit concerned about screwing around with Congress. Read more »
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